William Goldman Quotes
Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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Bling is good.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I'm not about being sexy. I'm about the music.
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The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.
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The 'good food' is...the food of the Word of God, for as food builds up the tissues of the body, repairs waste, and preserves us in health, so the Word of God is the complete food of the soul.
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I didn't think that it's something that would happen. I didn't think I would be in the position, emotionally or financially, to be able to do that. But I've been lucky [to have big family].
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Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
